Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Kraken as a Lead Product Manager for Kraken Custody and drive the evolution and scaling of its institutional-grade custody platform. Lead end-to-end product strategy and roadmap, scaling secure and compliant custody infrastructure for top-tier institutional clients. Integrate staking, prime execution, and structured yield solutions to create a unified institutional product suite. Design intuitive custody interfaces and workflows, supporting complex organizational structures and real-time balance insights. Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure regulatory compliance. Engage with clients to identify pain points and shape product direction. This is a high-impact leadership role crucial to Kraken’s long-term success in the institutional market.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management with a focus on custody, institutional infrastructure, or B2B fintech
• Experience delivering secure, high-availability platforms for mission-critical financial services
• Strong understanding of institutional client needs - governance, compliance, and operational complexity
• Ability to design products that support multi-user structures, granular permissions, and real-time controls
• Deep understanding of digital asset security, private key management, and operational risk
• Understanding of MPC, HSMs, and cold/hot wallet security models
• Experience building integrated product ecosystems
• Ability to align custody capabilities with adjacent services like staking, trading, and lending to create a cohesive client journey
• Experience building products that balance UX with rigorous control frameworks
• Proven success working across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to deliver complex products
• Effective at building consensus and driving execution at scale
• A passion for the crypto ecosystem and its unique challenges
• Familiarity with on-chain asset management, smart contract staking, yield protocols, and the evolving regulatory environment

Responsibilities

• Own and Scale Kraken Custody
• Lead end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Kraken Custody
• Scale secure, compliant, and highly available custody infrastructure that meets the needs of top-tier institutional clients, including asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, and crypto-native firms
• Integrate Staking, Yield & Prime Services
• Deliver seamless integrations with staking, prime execution, and structured yield solutions to create a unified institutional product suite
• Collaborate across business lines to ensure custody is the foundation for client access to execution, derivatives, and financing products
• Deliver Institutional-Grade Experience
• Design intuitive, enterprise-ready custody interfaces and workflows, supporting complex organizational structures, role-based access control, real-time balance insights, and operational controls
• Champion reliability, security, and auditability in all product features
• Regulatory-First Product Thinking
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure all product initiatives align with regulatory requirements across key jurisdictions
• Future-proof custody features to support regulatory readiness, segregation of assets, and reporting frameworks
• Client-Centric Innovation
• Engage deeply with institutional clients and prospects to identify pain points, develop solutions, and shape product direction
• Drive adoption through tight feedback loops, robust client onboarding, and ongoing product iteration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with staking architecture or validator operations
• Familiarity with Prime Brokerage or structured yield products
• Background in securities custody, fund administration, or digital asset infrastructure